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Journalists Sense Turmoil in Their Industry Amid Continued Passion for Their Work
Older journalists much more concerned about the future of press freedom
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- Journalists Sense Turmoil in Their Industry Amid Continued Passion for Their Work
- Just over half of journalists think every side does not always deserve equal coverage
- About four-in-ten journalists have been harassed by someone outside their outlet, often through social media
- Journalists are passionate about what they do but have deep concerns about the news industry
- Older journalists much more concerned about the future of press freedom
- Two-thirds of journalists say their news outlet has enough gender diversity; about a third say this for race, ethnicity and fewer than half say their outlet makes diversity a top priority
- Journalists largely find social media harmful, but see ways it helps their jobs
- Journalists and the American public stand far apart on how well they think news outlets do in many of their core functions
- Public more pessimistic than journalists on whether it’s possible to report news nearly all see as accurate
- Journalists are far more concerned than the public about politically like-minded people clustering around the same news outlets
- Most journalists say news organizations should report on public figures’ false statement